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Davao-born international tenor artist holds concert
« on: June 03, 2020, 11:26:00 AM »
DAVAO CITY – A Davao-born international tenor artist will be performing before the Dabawenyos Friday night at the Grand Regal Hotel.

During his concert dubbed TenoRRfic, Abdul Candao will be awarded by the city government of Davao as the first Dabawenyo International Artist.

Candao comes home every two years to perform before his kababayans. This will be his fifth time to hold a concert for the Davao audience.

Proceeds of the show will benefit the Davao Lady Lawyers Association with their advocacy on Violence Against Women and Children.

Abdul has popularized his craft for 27 years in Europe where classical music is always associated with culture.

"There is an audience for this type of music in the Philippines and I have also seen potentials among the young ones," he said.

“In Manila such specific audience for classical music is there but this has still to be established in the provinces even as there is an improvement on the appreciation of such music outside of the capital," he said.

In Europe, he said that if you are a performer of classical music, the artist is supported by the government as if you are employed by the state.

"They really put premium on it by supporting the artists because culture is very important to them," he said.

Abdul won first prize in 1982 at the National Music Competitions for Young Artists in Manila while he was a member of the Philippine Saringhimig under his first voice teacher, George Hernandez. He was also part of the Kayumangging Kaligatan, a seven-member vocal ensemble under the late National Artist Prof. Emani Cuenco.

Candao then became a student and personal scholar of Prof. Irman Potenciano at the University of Santo Tomas Conservatory of Music. He earned his Diploma from the Opera Class of the Vienna Conservatory of Music in 1995 under KS Waldemar Kmentt and has studied with KS Walter Berry and Maestro Vahan Mirakian.

After finishing school, he got Baron Huebner in the Austrian musical "Elizabeth" at the Theater an der Wien.

Since then, he has sung opera, operetta, and concerts in Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, the Philippines, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the US.

Some of his representative roles included Cavaradossi, Chateauneuf, Faust, Fernando, the Governor in "Candide", Graf von Luxemburg, Max the Prince in "Rusalka", Prince Sou Chong, Radames, and Zarewitsch.

He has also created two leading roles in the operas: "Jush-Tush" and "Arrest" in Vienna.

Among Candao’s important performances were in 2008’s Cavaradossi at the Teatro Castro Alves in Salvador, Brazil; in 2009 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, the Staatsoper in Munich, and the Muziktheater in Amsterdam in Christoph Schingensiet's "Mea Culpa".

In 2010 he sang at the Seville at the Oper im Berg Summer Festival in Salzburg Austria and in 2011 he sang at the Osterklang Festival of the Theater an der Wien in Bernstein's "Mass".

And in January 2012 he sang Prince Sou Chong at the Grosses Festpielhaus in Salzburg Austria. And that same year, he sang Don Jose in the latest Production in Manila directed by Laurice Guillen.

The Filipino tenor continues to peform in theaters and is currently based in Vienna, Austria. (Digna D. Banzon/PNA)

DECEMBER 2017

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